Thursday.

Thursday is my favorite day of the weekdays, and it always has been.

My weeks tend to go something like this:
1. Monday is the nice, fresh start to the school week, but sometimes getting back into the swing of things after a relaxing weekend can be tough.
2. Usually by Tuesday I'm ready to face the week, but if there's not a whole lot of work to be done, I can be kinda lazy, and laziness wastes important time.
3. Wednesday is the busiest day of the week, so it tends to be either very good or very not-so-good depending on the balance between the work I accomplish and my stress level.
4. Thursday! I don't know what it is about Thursday that makes it so great. Perhaps it's when I best strike the balances between classes, homework, social events, relaxation, and time spent with the Lord. Maybe it's because I've evaluated my week thus far and have decided how it can be bettered. I don't know.
5. Fridays are fine, but it's easy to be impatient while sitting through classes knowing that there's a weekend imminent.

That's not to say that every week of my life is exactly like this, but it seems to be the most recognizable, stereotypical pattern through my middle school and high school years.

Having explained all of this, I've realized that I've got to make this week pattern stop. Throw a wrench in it.

In a psychology class that I took recently, we learned that stereotypes exist and persist because we let them exist and persist. Once our mind has adhered to a stereotype, we tend to ignore (and often subconsciously ignore) observations that contradict the stereotype of the thing or people in question. It's kind of like a self-fulfilling prophecy. That being said, I feel that since I begin a week expecting it to go the stereotypical way, I simply allow it to turn out that way. Why should I work harder on one day over another? Why should I settle for less one day and shoot for more on another? Why not work hard every day?

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heat, as working for the Lord, not for men, since your know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving." - Colossians 3:23-24

My life needs to reflect this verse everyday. Not just on Thursdays.